Bay Bowen Therapy & Holistic Wellness

In the coming week, my manuscript should finally be ready for professional assessment. To say I'm excited would be an understatement and to say I'm terrified would also be accurate.
Over the last couple of years, writing this book has become a little like raising a child. The early stages felt like a pregnancy of sorts with ideas, thoughts, fragments of stories and life observations scribbled on scraps of paper and saved on my hard drive. Then came the long process of nurturing it, shaping it, feeding it, watching it grow into something that closely resembles a fully formed individual.
Now I find myself at the point where I have to hand it over to someone else for a professional opinion, and I feel that's a very vulnerable place to be. It's like taking that leap out of a perfectly working airplane and hoping your parachute opens!
Like any parent sending their child off on the first day of school, I know I have to let it step out into the world and find its own way. I can only hope it's treated kindly and judged fairly although even if it doesn't resonate with everyone the way I hope it will, I will still love it. It has been one of the most challenging, rewarding, frustrating, enlightening and cathartic journeys I've ever undertaken.
Writing a non-fiction, memoir style book is an incredibly intimate process. It asks you to examine your thoughts, your experiences, your beliefs, your memories and sometimes even the parts of yourself you had forgotten or would rather leave hidden.
Since embarking on this journey, I've seen many discussions about using AI to write books. Like most tools, in my opinion I think AI has its place, but I think to write an entire book with AI is doing yourself a disservice.
One of the greatest gifts writing has given me has been the journey itself.
It's been in wrestling with ideas, finding my voice, working through self-doubt, revisiting old memories, discovering new perspectives and shaping those experiences into something meaningful.
Happy to use AI to check my spelling or find an alternative word for me so I don't need to pull out the thesaurus, but writing is a deeply creative and personal experience, and I would have missed so many lessons that process has taught me if I didn't do it myself. To be clear, I am a novice, and absolutely not a professional in this space and this is just merely my opinion from my own experience, but to me, writing is a little like sitting across from someone at dinner. We can spend the evening looking at our phones, or we can engage in real conversation. One loses connection and the other creates connection. Personally, I like to be phone free when I go to dinner and to have that intimate time with the people I am sharing a meal with, but there are others who are not that way inclined and that is perfectly fine if that's your jam.
The book may be the outcome, but the real gift has been becoming the person who wrote it. Anyway, watch this space. My book is very close to being born. 🥰

A few happy snaps from my phone of a most wonderful few days at the conference. Connecting with friends, making new ones, hearing stories, learning new things and the honour and privilege of being able to present to my peers which was scary and exciting all at once. Feeling extremely thankful for all I have gained from this wonderful therapy and how much it has not only changed my life but the lives of others too - more photo spam to come 😌

Lest we forget ❤️

Today, on ANZAC Day, I pause with deep gratitude for the courage, sacrifice, and resilience of the men and women who have served — past and present.

Their strength, their stories, and their willingness to stand for something greater than themselves is something we will never take for granted.

Because of them, we have the freedom to live, work, love, and create the lives we choose.

Today is a day to reflect, to remember, and to honour.

Thank you will never feel like enough… but it is said with the deepest respect.

🌿 Lest we forget 🌿

AnzacSpirit

Hands that listen.

Every body tells a story.
Sometimes it whispers through tension.
Sometimes it speaks through fatigue.
And sometimes it simply asks to be heard.

Bowen Therapy isn’t about force — it’s about gentle conversations with the nervous system.

This is the work I love. 🤍

🌿 A Heartfelt Farewell and a New Beginning 🌿

After so many beautiful years of caring for my wonderful clients here in Miami o the Gold Coast, I want to share some heartfelt news — Green Valley Bowen Therapy will officially close on Thursday, 13th November 2025.

This decision hasn’t come lightly. It’s one I’ve made after a lot of reflection and listening to what I need for my own health and wellbeing. While it’s the right next step, it’s certainly not an easy one. I’ll deeply miss every single person who has trusted me with their care over the years. 💚

To all of my incredible clients — thank you.
Thank you for allowing me to be part of your healing journey, for sharing your stories, your laughter, your trust, and your time. It’s been an absolute privilege to walk beside you and to witness so many moments of change, calm and connection.

As this chapter closes, a new and exciting one begins. Matt and I are thrilled to be relocating to Hervey Bay to open our new clinic —
✨ Bay Bowen & Holistic Wellness in Point Vernon. ✨

This next chapter brings together our shared passion for holistic wellbeing, gentle therapies, and creating a space that nurtures the body, mind and spirit — just steps from the ocean.

If you ever find yourself in Hervey Bay, please come and visit — you’ll always be welcomed with open arms (and a cup of tea waiting for you!).

With so much love, gratitude, and appreciation,
Samantha 🌿
Bay Bowen & Holistic Wellness
(Formerly Green Valley Bowen Therapy)

Once upon a time, fascia was severely underestimated.

Previously thought of as basically just packing material, protecting our more important structures, it's now known that fascia plays a vital role in movement, immune function, and is our largest bodily organ, with the greatest capacity for sensation.

📸 Dr Jean Claude Guimberteau
✍🏻 The Body Mechanic, Inc.

📌Schematic diagram showing “Tom, Dick, and Harry” arrangement of tendons on medial aspect of the ankle. The tibial nerve divides into the medial and lateral plantar nerves just distal to the medial retinaculum. The sensory medial calcaneal nerve often originates just proximal to or within the retinaculum.

Ever heard your Bowen Therapist tell you not to wear your wallet in your back pocket?

This photo beautifully illustrates why!

Sitting unevenly can create subtle imbalances that lead to muscle tension, joint strain, nerve irritation, and more, over time.

📸: Walters Chiropractic

In Bowen Therapy, we honour the pauses.

Not as downtime, but as integration time — a chance for the body to process, adjust, and re-organise itself in quiet, intelligent ways.

This quiet space is where shifts can begin to unfold. No rush, no pressure. Just the body doing what it knows best, in its own time, to the best of its ability.

Here’s to slowing down this weekend. 💚